Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now that does not entirely rule out any possibility of the new settlement within the Selby area , as er Mr has implied . |
| 2 | It is not entirely clear why financial deregulation is taking place . |
| 3 | Do not suddenly take up violent exercise after years of inactivity , or you will injure yourself . |
| 4 | While in talks with his own advisers the president did not necessarily rule out armed action at some later date , he vetoed a CIA plan to " topple Nasser " . |
| 5 | such as f er for example a word processor clerk or may not saying , may not necessarily need so much training as |
| 6 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 7 | Some nuns and priests chose to go into the FMLN controlled zones where they are not only carrying out religious work but also helping in the educational campaigns . |
| 8 | The new discoveries not only provided more detailed evidence for the development of life on earth , but also highlighted the exotic nature of the earth 's earlier inhabitants . |
| 9 | More and more , in other words , these now possessed the means not merely to carry out foreign policy but also to study foreign policy questions in some depth . |
| 10 | Turning to the volume 's introductory pages , I read some encouraging words that at once led me to hope that I might yet track down a few potential search areas that had not already received too much attention . |
| 11 | They have various strategies to cope with the showy behaviour of boys , such as giving more attention , allotting instant verbal or physical punishment , aligning the curriculum to interest them ; the normal deviant girl does not anyway present too many control problems . |
| 12 | Much of the impetus behind such thinking has come from dowsers who realized that they were not just picking up underground water but something else , which they called telluric force . |
| 13 | Do not just skip over this bit . |
| 14 | The counsellor 's task is not just to understand only one facet of the counsellee 's life , but to know something about the totality . |
| 15 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |
| 16 | Not easy getting up that rope with angry snake behind . |
| 17 | Of course taking some responsibility for providing personal care does not always demand quite this level of commitment , but examples of this kind are valuable in specifying just what responsibility towards one 's parents can mean . |
| 18 | Higher tax rates do not always bring in more money . |
| 19 | It is not always realised how little spinning is carried out during the test flying of a new type of glider . |
| 20 | Local hierarchy did not always read off academic excellence as the desired end of local practice , so that there was less concern in these rural areas for the fate of the top few than for that of the majority . |
| 21 | Symptoms , however , do not always imply objectively demonstrable reflux , particularly after antireflux surgery . |
| 22 | The reason for an indemnity is that such a covenant does not automatically pass on each transaction ; the burden of it needs to be handed down expressly to each subsequent buyer . |
| 23 | Between 1958/9 and 1979/80 it rose sharply ( in England from 36.1 per cent to 48.5 per cent ) , but this did not automatically mean more central control , any more than the subsequent fall by 1984/5 to 39.2 per cent meant increased local freedom ( all figures from Travers , 1986 , table app. 7 ) . |
| 24 | Ships did not often come down this coast , and I said to myself , ‘ I 'm going to be on this island for a long time . ’ |
| 25 | Rousseau misses the point that direct experience is often inadequate as direct experience : an actual motor-car engine , even one that can be taken apart , does not really explain how internal combustion powers a car . |
| 26 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 27 | Some of the clans , such as the Campbells of Argyll , were staunchly Whig , others were divided amongst themselves , and many were not really committed strongly one way or the other . |
| 28 | Your aim , though , is not simply to lose as much weight as you can in as short a time as possible . |
| 29 | One of the problems facing him was that one can not simply set up any experiment in a public building ; health and safety regulations have to be obeyed . |
| 30 | ‘ I can not even grieve over this child , for it would have kept me here . |